The nine-hour limited event series stars James Franco as a high-school English teacher who travels back in time to stop the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. “11.22.63” also stars Chris Cooper, Josh Duhamel, T.R. Knight, Cherry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Lucy Fry, George MacKay and Daniel Webber.

Scottish director Kevin Macdonald (“Last King of Scotland,” “State of Play”) directs and executive produces the first two hours.

Hulu will release episodes of “11.22.63” on a weekly basis, as it has done for its other original series. That’s in contrast to Netflix’s binge-friendly strategy of releasing the entire season of a show at once.

The series will be available exclusively to Hulu subscribers on either the $7.99 monthly plan with ads, or the $11.99 commercial-free option.

Hulu, owned by Disney, 21st Century Fox and NBCUniversal, has been steadily ramping up its slate of original series with big-name talent in a bid to win more paying customers — and compete more aggressively against Netflix and Amazon. Hulu’s recently debuted originals include “The Mindy Project” season 4 after Fox canceled the show, and Amy Poehler’s “Difficult People,” which will be returning for a second season.

Hulu had previously styled the name of the series as “11/22/63,” the same as King’s book, but now refers to it as “11.22.63.”

I love it! It gives me something to look forward to, it reminds me of the good ole days of having to wait to catch a show. You know were I’ll be when episode three comes out. Stephen King is the best. I am totally hooked.

The entire executive team at HULU should be fired for this move. When the show fails to attract weekly viewers they’ll blame King saying the book was to hard to bring to screen. King will in turn blame director, and director will say JJ Abrhams Bad Robot wouldn’t give him creative control.

I just started a free trial. I was planning on binging 11/22/63 and canceling before the week, but playing around, I found a handful of shows I liked, and decided to hang around a bit longer as between Seinfeld, South Park, and Community in one place…..I figured I would stick with it.

Then I just read these cheapskates are releasing their shows week to week. And paying 8 a month to be MURDERED with commercials.

Lost me as a customer already. I’ll pirate 11/22/63 in 1080P right now before it’s even released on Hulu.